Selected pages from Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company's Catalog H from 1930. In addition to complete parts lists for a number of aircraft engines, this Catalog offered a variety of supplies for the construction, maintenance, and operation of...

Selected pages from Wright Aircraft Engines, including the chapter "Overhaul of Wright Engines: Instructions for Disassembly of Detail Parts, Their Inspection, Repair and Reassembly."
In 1909, the Wright Company was incorporated in the state of...

Advertising brochure for the Marshall Flying School in Marshall, Missouri. In addition to offering flying courses for those seeking a private pilot's license or an industrial pilot's license, Marshall also offered ground courses in airplane...

Selections include "Books hitherto published on aerostation" (pages 463-465) and an example of one of the many full-page photo-zincographs that illustrate the text. "Astra Castra is a work of 530 pp. large quarto; it consists chiefly of extract[s]...

Selected pages from Dyke's manual on aircraft engine maintenance and repair. In support of detailed instructions on the repair and maintenance of various aircraft engines, Dyke's 1928 manual contains many photographs and diagrams, including colored...

The pages excerpted here list works by Glenn Hammond Curtiss, one of the most famous aviators and aircraft designers of all time, and works by Alfred W. Lawson, an eccentric aviation pioneer from Wisconsin.
"Aeronautics was passing through a...

Selected pages from Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company's 1927 Catalog. Offering their customers everything from gaskets and gears to goggles and gauges, this was Nicholas-Beazley's first illustrated catalog. Ah, those were the days . . . you could...

This 1930 publication from the now defunct Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Company of America claims to be "the first complete authoritative presentation of the Autogiro; what it is, what it does, and how it does it." Juan de la Cierva, an airplane...

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